You think you're young, so you're safe from the #coronavirus?
What about lung scarring for life?
It might happen to up to a third of ppl who contract it.
95% of asymptomatic cases have opacities in their lungs.
[1/7]
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…
What about lung scarring for life?
It might happen to up to a third of ppl who contract it.
95% of asymptomatic cases have opacities in their lungs.
[1/7]
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…
“These kinds of tissue changes can cause permanent damage,” Ali Gholamrezanezhad, radiologist at the Keck School of Medicine at the University of Southern California.
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vox.com/2020/5/8/21251…
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vox.com/2020/5/8/21251…
We don't know the long-term impact yet. But what happened with SARS and MERS? In BOTH cases, a third of survivors had lung scarring a long time after. [3/7]
nature.com/articles/s4141…
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…
nature.com/articles/s4141…
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…
Gholamrezanezhad: "For this subset of people, “The pulmonary function never comes back; their ability to do normal activities never goes back to baseline.”
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And remember: ~15% of people across ages are hospitalized.
Many of these will have complications, such as strokes, embolisms, blood clotting.
A 41 year old Broadway actor had his leg amputated because of it. [5/7]
insider.com/nick-cordero-l…
Many of these will have complications, such as strokes, embolisms, blood clotting.
A 41 year old Broadway actor had his leg amputated because of it. [5/7]
insider.com/nick-cordero-l…
20% of those with ARDS (Acute respiratory distress syndrome) have long-term cognitive impairment. [6/7]
ccforum.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…
ccforum.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…
People focus on the deaths, and that makes some younger people disregard #COVID19 . But this is a nasty disease that we don't understand and can have very bad long-term consequences. Don't take chances. [7/7]
